as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel
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Recent Examples of assignation
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
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Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
Seems the Trump rally leaping, advertiser losing and Kamala Harris assignation joking Musk is the issue, as is so often the case in such suits of late.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The musician, Ansel Fleming (Ivy typically refers to him by his full name, like Charlie Brown), has come not for an assignation but, rather, for a sort of blind date.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
Seems the Trump rally leaping, advertiser losing and Kamala Harris assignation joking Musk is the issue, as is so often the case in such suits of late.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The musician, Ansel Fleming (Ivy typically refers to him by his full name, like Charlie Brown), has come not for an assignation but, rather, for a sort of blind date.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignation
Noun
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To schedule an appointment, please call the Lottery Player Relations office at 844-887-6836, option 2.—
Detroit Free Press Staff,
Freep.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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But on a recent Wednesday afternoon, seven of nine appointments were rescheduled.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Bad Guys 2 has earned $51.6 million domestically and $44.1 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $95.7 million to date against an $80 million budget before prints and advertising costs, per The Numbers.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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The waiver allows passengers with bookings made before Aug. 14 to move their trip to a date between Aug. 21 and Sept. 12.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
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What's more, Venus and Jupiter's cosmic rendezvous should take place against a backdrop of bright stars – including Orion, Taurus, Gemini and Sirius, according to NASA.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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Practicing for the moon Selected with NASA's second group of astronauts in 1962, Lovell first launched aboard Gemini 7, the first mission to include a rendezvous with another crewed spacecraft (Gemini 6).—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
9 Aug. 2025
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“Assignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignation. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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